{"id":1436,"date":"2020-03-27T19:08:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T19:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2020-03-27T20:39:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T20:39:30","slug":"understand-photoshop-layer-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/27\/understand-photoshop-layer-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Understand Photoshop Layer Mask"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
  1. Add Mask to selected object.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Use Selection tool to select object. In this example, we use Object tool plus Quick Selection tool. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    After the selection, click Add a Mask icon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Now, you have selected object with transparency background. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Alternately, if you still in Selection Tool
    , you can click on Select and Mask
    (go to Select>Select and Mask) . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Adjust the selection and then Layer Mask. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    You can use Shaft + click to show or hind the background. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    2. Add another text layer behind the image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Click Crete a new layer in the bottom. Select Text Tool (T). Type some words.. The words are in the front the image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    To move the text behind the image, hold <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    move to Text Layer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    the some words doesn’t show until we highlight selected object and hod, control + i.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    But if you move the text out of the object, we miss some part of words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Now, if you unlink Text layer and selected layer, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    You can see the all words. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    You can double click on the Text layer to change the text. Or click Move tool to move the words. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    3. If you want to display the image behind text, use select tool to select the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Make sure the selected image is highlighted <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Use Brush tool with Black background, brush the word Live. The background show up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    4. To add one more layer between original layer and select\/Text layer, host Control key click on Create a new layer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Make sure the black background is selected, and Hold Alt key click Backspace. You have the black background. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    If you have text layer highlight without link, you can move the text. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    If you have selected object highlight with link, you can move the object. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    If you hold Control + T, you can large or small the object. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Add Mask to selected object. Use Selection tool to select object. In this example, we use Object tool plus Quick Selection tool. After the selection, click Add a Mask icon. Now, you have selected object with transparency background. Alternately, if you still in Selection Tool , you can click on Select and Mask (go to … Continue reading Understand Photoshop Layer Mask<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1477,"href":"https:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions\/1477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quicksetupguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}